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MIT Everyware

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-joke,-get-it dept.

TeachingMachines writes "David Diamond has written a very readable article at Wired News titled MIT Everyware that follows up on MIT's OpenCourseWare initiative (previous story). It turns out that one of the most popular courses has been '6.170 Laboratory in Software Engineering, Fall 2001.' Diamond notes that '[u]ltimately, MIT officials know, OpenCourseWare's success depends on the emergence of online communities to support individual courses.'"

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  1. SCO Takes Credit For MIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As Spokesperson for SCO I would like to state how proud we are to be responsible for MIT. All of MIT. we have a team at MIT doing some great work. Well, we have a team of MIT people who aren't completely involved with MIT anymore. Alright some of them are dead. OK, OK, we picked up some dead people with the same name as some people who once walked by MIT.

    But it's a great team, really.

  2. Online U. by cheesekeeper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Online communities to support the university, eh?

    Party tonight at 65.215.9.11!!! OPEN PROXY! FREE SOFTWARE KEG!

    This is the future of online college.

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    Best read in good ol' Monaco 9 point.

  3. Re:This idea is genius. by danila · · Score: 3, Funny
    That's precisely the attitude that Richard Feynman had when he graduated from MIT.

    When I was an undergraduate at MIT I loved it. I thought it was a great place, and I wanted to go to graduate school there too, of course. But when I went to Professor Slater and told him of my intentions, he said, "We won't let you in here."

    I said, "What?"

    Slater said, "Why do you think you should go to graduate school at MIT?"

    "Because MIT is the best school for science in the country."

    "You think that?"

    "Yeah."

    "That's why you should go to some other school. You should find out how the rest of the world is."

    ("Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard P. Feynman as told to Ralph Leighton)
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    Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
  4. Java??? What happened to CLU? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Back when I took this class, we used CLU. How dare they use a language that might actually prove to be useful to know after graduation!